Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Westerly Middle School's SALT revealed strengths in several categories. The building itself is designed into 'pods' which each are a community within a community and establish a safe place for the students to feel at home. The mathematics skills were shown in most classes that ran well in the comfortable calm atmosphere of the school and its staff. The students problem solving skills are also developed in multiple classroom under various conditions and have begun taking both math and problem solving out of the classroom environment. These strengths show their weaknesses in greater light as the students reading and writing skills are underdeveloped. They are not able to express themselves well and communicate through writing in all classes. While the main subject of English covers it other classroom teachers do not follow through with the specific skills for their classroom. While reading time is provided, how to do it is left to the student to muddle through on their own. The real world applications of what the student are leaning however does encourage the student to do their best while the hands on side gives them first hand experience. The classrooms themselves are not diversified to their potential in all the areas in which this would be best for the students. Technology is also a bit lost in some of the classrooms where it may be mentioned but the students to not get to work with it themselves. The pod set up speaks well for the main team teacher to work together however the allied arts teachers are not brought in to work with them even when the students spend part of their day in the allied arts as well as their own team.
Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Westerly Middle School's SALT revealed strengths in several categories. The building itself is designed into 'pods' which each are a community within a community and establish a safe place for the students to feel at home. The mathematics skills were shown in most classes that ran well in the comfortable calm atmosphere of the school and its staff. The students problem solving skills are also developed in multiple classroom under various conditions and have begun taking both math and problem solving out of the classroom environment. These strengths show their weaknesses in greater light as the students reading and writing skills are underdeveloped. They are not able to express themselves well and communicate through writing in all classes. While the main subject of English covers it other classroom teachers do not follow through with the specific skills for their classroom. While reading time is provided, how to do it is left to the student to muddle through on their own. The real world applications of what the student are leaning however does encourage the student to do their best while the hands on side gives them first hand experience. The classrooms themselves are not diversified to their potential in all the areas in which this would be best for the students. Technology is also a bit lost in some of the classrooms where it may be mentioned but the students to not get to work with it themselves. The pod set up speaks well for the main team teacher to work together however the allied arts teachers are not brought in to work with them even when the students spend part of their day in the allied arts as well as their own team.